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I'm terrified of riding the nyc subway because I don't understand how it works amd I'll get lost.
its really well designed and easy. with a smartphone, navigating the city is so easy I think a 10yo could do it. that said, my parents might have trouble, but only cause they get freaked out.
I just looked at your metro map. As a San Diego resident, we need to step out game up. We barely have a trolley system compared to your subway.
Trains go either this or that direction. Get on the train that goes the direction you want. Get out of the train when it is where you want to be. Done.
I grew up on a farm, basically the rural part of a rural county in a rural state. When I visited San Diego I got on a bus going the wrong direction (which isn't a thing I even realized you could do wrong). Ended up having to wait an hour for another bus in a sketchy part of town, at night, while in cosplay.
Felt like that episode of SpongeBob where they get stuck at Rock Bottom.
I live in San Diego (well, in east county) and it's particularly a mess here. The geography leads to no real structure, roads just sorta go where they can fit. This and a general lack of public transportation infrastructure means it's easy to get lost or take forever to get where you're going. Luckily it's pretty safe, as cities go. We have a lot of unhoused folks but they're just here for the weather. I'd rather be stuck downtown somewhere at night than out here in the rural SD area, buncha fuckin white supremacists are my neighbors
Also, you only pay when you enter the system, and it's a flat fee no matter how far you ride. So if you fuck up and get on the wrong train, just get out and get on the correct train. You don't have to pay again until you actually leave the system. (I think there are some stations where you can't change directions without exiting to the street and re-entering, but that's pretty uncommon.)
Just use your phone now, use transit directions. It'll tell you exactly where to go. And if you go to the wrong place, you can always just go back